Protein and mineral

When do deer generally stop hitting the protein and minerals up? After this do any of you feed anything but corn?
Jason moment

Some will eat protein and lick minerals almost all year, most of the mineral usage is probably in the spring, I feed a mix of protein and corn in a spin feeder year round and haven't noticed much protein left on the ground even in the winter, though I don't feed as much protein from now through the end of the year as I do in spring and summer.

If you feed it they will eat it year round!

I never stop feeding protein, feed it year round. As a supplement it is their when they need it. Minerals are mainly eaten right now when the bucks are finished shedding velvet for a few weeks. They need to replenish what they robbed from their body during antler growth. They will eat minerals again for a short time in the spring pretty good. Rest of year with minerals is hit and miss from year to year.

I feed protein year round. In fact, in the last 4 weeks they have consumed 800 lbs at my bow blind location alone.

I had no idea the bucks needed that much minerals right now. I don't usually keep a camera at mineral site this time of year

we actually stop protein in mid October and resume first part of January - mainly to try to keep our deer moving during hunting season and not going nocturnal - we have not seen any issues with body weights or horns by doing this -

Ditto on the mineral, I have been getting a lot of TC photos of all deer but the fawns licking my mineral/salt block in the last month.

Ours eat it all year. We only mandate it from March 1 to October 1 of each year

They'll eat more mineral/salt during the wetter part of the year (spring/early summer), but that doesn't mean they don't need some right now. Same with protein. If your goal is herd health, keep it out 24/7. If you want them to move a little more you can cut it off and go straight corn.

speaking of minerals - what is the best way to feed it? Blocks just do not seem like they would get enough ingested to do any good? Put it in tubs?

Deer never stop needing minerals and protein. Feed it year around so they have a head start when they start to grow next season.